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2BRO2B

Posted in Links, culture, glimpses, library and info science on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just finished a quick read of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story, “2BRO2B’, (read it at Project Gutenburg)  a not-so quaint distopia set in a world not entirely unlike ours in which certain ‘population control’ measures have been put in place.  It’s been a while since I’ve read any Vonnegut, not since the 2008 posthumous release [...]

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Reference Question

Posted in glimpses, library and info science, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just had a library patron ask how to tell the edition of a book by the info included on the copyright page. Found myself trying to remember how to decode the apparently random strings of numbers listed below all the cataloging data
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 (3rd edition)
2 4 6 [...]

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Google vs. Hathitrust

Posted in Links, copyright, culture, glimpses, library and info science, technology, tagged , , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No holds barred cage match.  Well not exactly.  If  you’re on the “Google is Evil” side then you should check out the Hathitrust Digital Repository.  In the spirit of digital=accessible, a group of 25 university libraries have contributed their digital collections (though not all in full-text) to this open access project.  Ironically many of the [...]

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Rearchitecting the music business

Posted in community, copyright, culture, library and info science, music on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Up way too late tonight writing a paper for a course I’m taking on Information Ethics for my Masters of Library and Information Science program. Just when I thought I was totally burned out on this paper I came across this terrific article at First Monday by UM professor Robert Frost (not the poet, [...]

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